Annelys de Vet
Annelys de Vet is a designer, researcher and educator based near Brussels. She is currently leading the new temporary MA course ‘Disarming Design’ at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam committed to design practices in situations of oppression, acting on the overlap of design, crafts, politics, pedagogy, community, and poetry. Until 2019 she headed the MA in Design ‘Think tank for Visual strategies’. In 2012 she co-founded the thought-provoking design platform ‘Disarming Design from Palestine’ focusing on designs created in conscious and integrated ways, which speak of the reality they are manufactured in. She has initiated the publishing initiative Subjective Editions that maps regions from inside out, from a human perspective, including Subjective atlas of Luxembourg (2019). Currently Devet is a PhD candidate at ARIA, a practice-led doctoral study at Sint Lucas School of Arts and University Antwerp, where she researches alternative design pedagogies. As a total, the body of work explores the role of design in relation to the public and political discourse, to develop methods, structures, and tools that feed agency for a pluralist society. How can we live together better?
Together with Yusra Amounah she developed the structure and approach of the series of ateliers ‘Weaving Futures’.
